ENGL 41000: Medieval Literature: Dante
The Comedy Illuminating Florence by Domenico di Michelino, 1465
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Allegory and symbolism
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Characters--Beatrice
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Characters--Virgil
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Ethics
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Knowledge--Astronomy
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Paradiso
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Religion
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Symbolism
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Technique
Virgil--Criticism and interpretation
Virgil in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
Virgil--Influence
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism
Italian literature--History and criticism
Italian poetry--To 1400--History and criticism
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literature, Medieval--Roman influences
Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism
Middle Ages--History
Civilization, Medieval
Civilization, Medieval--13th century
Civilization, Medieval--14th century
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Geography, Medieval
Astronomy, Medieval
Philosophy, Medieval.
Europe--History--476-1492
Holy Roman Empire--History--843-1273
Thirteenth century
Fourteenth century
Philip IV, King of France, 1268-1314
Italy--History--476-1268
Italy--History--1268-1492
Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559
Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559
Florence (Italy)--Church history
Florence (Italy)--Civilization
Florence (Italy)--History
Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421
Guelfs and Ghibellines
Rome (Italy)--History--476-1420
Papacy--History--To 1309
Papacy--History
Theology, Doctrinal--History
Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Christian heresies--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Catholic Church--History
Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Europe--Church history--600-1500
Sin
Redemption
Salvation
Hell
Hell--Christianity--History of doctrines
Hell--Early works to 1800
Purgatory--Early works to 1800
Purgatory--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
Paradise
Paradise--Christianity
Paradise--Christianity--History of doctrines
Heaven
Heaven--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
Heaven--Comparative studies
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Allegory and symbolism
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Characters--Beatrice
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Characters--Virgil
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Ethics
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Knowledge--Astronomy
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Paradiso
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Religion
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Symbolism
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Technique
Virgil--Criticism and interpretation
Virgil in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
Virgil--Influence
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism
Italian literature--History and criticism
Italian poetry--To 1400--History and criticism
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literature, Medieval--Roman influences
Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism
Middle Ages--History
Civilization, Medieval
Civilization, Medieval--13th century
Civilization, Medieval--14th century
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Geography, Medieval
Astronomy, Medieval
Philosophy, Medieval.
Europe--History--476-1492
Holy Roman Empire--History--843-1273
Thirteenth century
Fourteenth century
Philip IV, King of France, 1268-1314
Italy--History--476-1268
Italy--History--1268-1492
Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559
Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559
Florence (Italy)--Church history
Florence (Italy)--Civilization
Florence (Italy)--History
Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421
Guelfs and Ghibellines
Rome (Italy)--History--476-1420
Papacy--History--To 1309
Papacy--History
Theology, Doctrinal--History
Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Christian heresies--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Catholic Church--History
Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Europe--Church history--600-1500
Sin
Redemption
Salvation
Hell
Hell--Christianity--History of doctrines
Hell--Early works to 1800
Purgatory--Early works to 1800
Purgatory--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
Paradise
Paradise--Christianity
Paradise--Christianity--History of doctrines
Heaven
Heaven--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
Heaven--Comparative studies
MLA International Bibliography provides the most complete and fully indexed coverage of articles and books on modern literatures, linguistics, folklore, rhetoric, and composition from 1925 to the present. There is ample full text provided by ProQuest, as well as links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. Full text from other IC databases is also readily available via the "GetIt" links below article citations.
Because books, book chapters/essays, and dissertations will usually not be available full text, you may wish to limit your search to "Journal article" under "Source type."
"Author's Work" and "Author as Subject" will be especially helpful search fields at finding literary criticism. And for additional search field options either click on "Show more fields," or, for the complete list, open the drop-down menus to the right of the "Anywhere" default for the top three rows of search slots. This list includes both "Literary Influence"--who influenced a particular author you have entered--and "Literary Source"--who was influenced by that particular author.
Note: While "Dante" works perfectly well for an "Author as Subject" search," be aware that the Divine Comedy must be searched as "Divina Commedia," "Divina Commedia: Inferno," "Divina Commedia: Purgatorio," or "Divina Commedia: Paradiso" in the "Author's Work" slot.
Note: Since this is a keyword search, be aware that you'll need to search both "Divine Comedy" and "Divina Commedia," since individual authors will have opted for one or the other.
Project Muse , although a smaller database, it complements JSTOR. LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 10-15 years. Muse offers a basic keyword search (be sure to put the titles of literary works in quotation marks). Once you've retrieved a set of articles you can sort them into broad categories using the Research Area options on the left.
Note: Checking the "Articles" box under Content Type before you run a search will eliminate reviews of books about your topic and leave you with just the articles on your topic.
ProQuest Research Library & Academic Search Premier are comprehensive databases and include considerable literary criticism--much of it full text. In running searches on authors, don't settle for a Keyword search on the author's name, as this will retrieve too many articles in which the author is only mentioned in passing. Instead use the specialized Subject search each provides. In ProQest enter the name, last name first, in the "Person" slot. In Academic Search Premier open the "Select a Field" drop down menu and search the name, last name first, in the "People" field. In both cases, use "Dante, Alighieri."
In both databases the titles of literary works must be searched as Keyword phrases, so be sure to put them in quotation marks and try both "Divine Comedy" and "Divina Commedia."
Academic Search Premier offers a range of Subject Headings beginning with "Medieval" that's worth browsing--just click on "Subject Terms" above the search slots. These include Medieval Astronomy, Medieval Civilization, Medieval Civilization--13th century, Medieval Civilization--14th century, Medieval Literature, Medieval Poetry, and Medieval Philosophy.
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials & Philosopher's Index may both be of help with Dante and medieval civilization. ATLA in particular could be a valuable resource for Christian doctrine and the papacy, as well as wide range of articles on the Commedia.
General OneFile is another comprehensive database with considerable literary criticism, but the default Subject search forcess you to retrieve EVERYTHING on a particular author. The standard "subdivisions" by which General OneFile organizes these results--"Ethical Aspects," Political Aspects," "Social Aspects"--are broad in respect to authors.
If you wish to focus on a particular a theme, the best strategy is to open all the results from the initial Subject search and then use the the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left to enter thematic Keywords.
If you wish to focus on a specific literary work, open "Advanced Search" and in the "Select Index" box choose "Named Work": this allows you to run a Subject search on a title.
Literature Compass: Not a database but "an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline." You will find this resource especially useful for its survey articles on recent critical trends in all major periods, including Medieval.
Literary Reference Center : The emphasis here is on articles from a wide range of reference resources, including Magill's Survey of American Literature, Cyclopedia of World Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Masterplots, etc. There is also access to the Critical Insights book series published by Salem Press, each volume dedicated to a single author or a single work. Both the reference works and the Critical Insights series provide very basic biography and interpretation, but these are supplemented by selected scholarly articles.
The simplest approach may be to enter a single author or a particular work in the "Most Studied Authors" or "Most Studied Works" sections of the "Browse" box. An Author or Work record will offer you "Related Information" categories such as "Literary Criticism," "Reference Books," "Biography," and "Plot Summaries."
Because books, book chapters/essays, and dissertations will usually not be available full text, you may wish to limit your search to "Journal article" under "Source type."
"Author's Work" and "Author as Subject" will be especially helpful search fields at finding literary criticism. And for additional search field options either click on "Show more fields," or, for the complete list, open the drop-down menus to the right of the "Anywhere" default for the top three rows of search slots. This list includes both "Literary Influence"--who influenced a particular author you have entered--and "Literary Source"--who was influenced by that particular author.
Note: While "Dante" works perfectly well for an "Author as Subject" search," be aware that the Divine Comedy must be searched as "Divina Commedia," "Divina Commedia: Inferno," "Divina Commedia: Purgatorio," or "Divina Commedia: Paradiso" in the "Author's Work" slot.
JSTOR has excellent 100% full-text coverage of literary scholarship. There is no Subject searching, so remember to put titles and authors' names in quotation marks to search them as Keyword phrases--and leave authors' names in the normal first-name last-name order. Set "Limit" to "Article"--or else you may unleash an avalanche of reviews of books on your topic.
JSTOR access to journal articles begins 2-4 years prior to the present--so don't look for any criticism from the last couple of years--but coverage always extends back to the first issue of each journal--in some cases into the 19th century and beyond. Note: Since this is a keyword search, be aware that you'll need to search both "Divine Comedy" and "Divina Commedia," since individual authors will have opted for one or the other.
Project Muse , although a smaller database, it complements JSTOR. LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 10-15 years. Muse offers a basic keyword search (be sure to put the titles of literary works in quotation marks). Once you've retrieved a set of articles you can sort them into broad categories using the Research Area options on the left.
Note: Checking the "Articles" box under Content Type before you run a search will eliminate reviews of books about your topic and leave you with just the articles on your topic.
ProQuest Research Library & Academic Search Premier are comprehensive databases and include considerable literary criticism--much of it full text. In running searches on authors, don't settle for a Keyword search on the author's name, as this will retrieve too many articles in which the author is only mentioned in passing. Instead use the specialized Subject search each provides. In ProQest enter the name, last name first, in the "Person" slot. In Academic Search Premier open the "Select a Field" drop down menu and search the name, last name first, in the "People" field. In both cases, use "Dante, Alighieri."
In both databases the titles of literary works must be searched as Keyword phrases, so be sure to put them in quotation marks and try both "Divine Comedy" and "Divina Commedia."
Academic Search Premier offers a range of Subject Headings beginning with "Medieval" that's worth browsing--just click on "Subject Terms" above the search slots. These include Medieval Astronomy, Medieval Civilization, Medieval Civilization--13th century, Medieval Civilization--14th century, Medieval Literature, Medieval Poetry, and Medieval Philosophy.
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials & Philosopher's Index may both be of help with Dante and medieval civilization. ATLA in particular could be a valuable resource for Christian doctrine and the papacy, as well as wide range of articles on the Commedia.
General OneFile is another comprehensive database with considerable literary criticism, but the default Subject search forcess you to retrieve EVERYTHING on a particular author. The standard "subdivisions" by which General OneFile organizes these results--"Ethical Aspects," Political Aspects," "Social Aspects"--are broad in respect to authors.
If you wish to focus on a particular a theme, the best strategy is to open all the results from the initial Subject search and then use the the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left to enter thematic Keywords.
If you wish to focus on a specific literary work, open "Advanced Search" and in the "Select Index" box choose "Named Work": this allows you to run a Subject search on a title.
Literature Compass: Not a database but "an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline." You will find this resource especially useful for its survey articles on recent critical trends in all major periods, including Medieval.
Literary Reference Center : The emphasis here is on articles from a wide range of reference resources, including Magill's Survey of American Literature, Cyclopedia of World Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Masterplots, etc. There is also access to the Critical Insights book series published by Salem Press, each volume dedicated to a single author or a single work. Both the reference works and the Critical Insights series provide very basic biography and interpretation, but these are supplemented by selected scholarly articles.
The simplest approach may be to enter a single author or a particular work in the "Most Studied Authors" or "Most Studied Works" sections of the "Browse" box. An Author or Work record will offer you "Related Information" categories such as "Literary Criticism," "Reference Books," "Biography," and "Plot Summaries."
- Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture
- Ancient Flame : Dante and the Poets
- Virgil, the Blind Guide : Marking the Way Through Dante's Poem
- Petrarch and Dante : Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition
- Dante's Commedia : Theology as Poetry
- Wordly Wise : The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante's Commedia
- Dante : The Divine Comedy
- Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
- Reading Dante's Stars
- Dante and the Franciscans
- Dante and the Sense of Transgression : The Trespass of the Sign
- Dante and the Unorthodox : The Aesthetics of Transgression
- Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's Inferno
- Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition
- Dante's Deadly Sins : Moral Philosophy in Hell
- Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante
- Translating the Middle Ages
- Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Dynamic Patterns in Texts and Images
- Medieval Heart
- Age of Reform, 1250-1550 : An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
- Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages : The Thirteenth Century
- Middle Ages Series : Last Things : Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
- History of the Medieval Church
- Uses of the Past in Early Medieval Europe
- Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages
- Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 : Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide
- Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages
- The Middle Ages Series : Fallen Bodies : Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages
- Princeton Dante Project
- Dartmouth Dante Project:
- The World of Dante:This University of Virginia site, under the editorship of Deborah Parker, is well designed for the undergraduate user. There are good collections of contextual materials, but best of all is the Dante text and translation. When you select a book and canto, the text will display in Italian juxtaposed with the Allen Mendalbaum English translation, along with categorized notes keyed to the text: People, Places, Creatures, Dieties, Images, etc.
- DanteWorlds: From Guy Raffa, Dante scholar at the University of Texas, Austin, this site is easy to use--quick and clicky--and Professor Raffa keeps his commentary terse and to the point.
- Digital Dante Project: This Columbia University site doesn't add much that isn't available from those above, but it's well designed, includes scholarly resources for The Comedy, and allows you to juxtapose the Longfellow translation of The Comedy with the Mandelbaum.
- DANTE ALIGHIERI: A Guide to Online Resources: From ORB: Onnline Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
- Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: Click on the works by title across the top for short (up to 1,500 words), scholarly articles.
- Dante Today: Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture: The subtitle pretty much explains this site, a labor of love from several Dante professors at Bowdoin and Stanford.
- Dante Alighieri: A philosophical prespective from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: From Fordham Univesity, use the "sections" along the left margin to navigate.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for medieval Studies: Categorized access to Web resources, from Georgetown University.
- The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Scan the Encyclopedia, Reference, and General ("for the nonspecialist") resources.
- Netserf: The Internet connection for Medievals Resources: A wideranging gateway.
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index: This is a bibliography of articles on women and gender issues in Medieval Studies maintained at the University of Iowa. To check IC access to the full text, search the title of the journal in the "Journals" search just above the IC Library online catalog.
- Luminarium: Resources for Medieval England: Despite its focus on England, some of the art, architecture and cultural resources here have a wider, Western European relevance.
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- MLA Citation Guide: Books (Print & Web)
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